"Have we created an unattainable image of perfection?" Diet.com explores The Photoshop Effect and the Photoshop guns hired to tune up celebrities. (The video has racked up nearly 900,000 views in just 10 days.) [Via Steve Johnson]

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You always find such interesting stuff to post. Hey even a Deke blog.
The music video is pretty cool, except I must confess turning off the, um, music.

David — 7:28 PM on June 27, 2008

RE: Photoshopping celebrity photos.
Is this much different than vaseline and gauss over the lens in the old days? For that matter, can’t the same objections be made to cosmetic surgery for creating an unobtainable standard?
BTW, I got a lot more out of the Dove video that IMHO addressed the subject in a move subtle but more powerful way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U